Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind—A book talk with Peter Godfrey-Smith

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Scientists, philosophers, and laypeople agree that animals have consciousness, sculpted into different shapes by the same evolutionary mechanisms that created ours. But much about these mechanisms and their products remains mysterious: why and how would natural selection lead to sensation, or to subjective awareness? How fruitful is it to compare the quality of our consciousness to that of an octopus, a parrot, or a coral? This talk, moderated by LEAP Student Fellow Lindsay Stern (Ph.D. ‘23), will feature philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith discussing these questions and his new book about them, Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind.

Register here for the webinar link: tinyurl.com/godfrey-smith

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Law, Ethics & Animals Program at Yale Law School

Yale Sustainable Food Program

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